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ENG 255: Women in Literature

Podcasts

Books to Film

  • A Little Princess (several movies & tv shows from 1917-2009)
  • Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
  • Carol (2015)
  • Divergent (2014 - 2017)
  • Frankenstein (1931) 
  • Giant (1956)
  • Gone Girl (2014)
  • Gone With the Wind (1939) 
  • Harry Potter (2001 - 2011)
  • Imitation of Life (1934/1959) 
  • Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
  • Like Water for Chocolate / Como agua para chocolate) (1992)
  • National Velvet (1944)
  • Rebecca (1940) 
  • Real Women Have Curves (2002)
  • Still Alice (2014) 
  • Strangers on a Train (1951)
  • The Birds (1963)
  • The Color Purple (1985/2023)
  • The Handmaiden (2016)
  • The Hunger Games (2012 - 2015)
  • The Joy Luck Club (1993)
  • Twilight (2008 - 2012)
  • Wuthering Heights (1939)

Library Databases

The Unappreciated Female Writers Who Invented the Novel

Video Credit: Storied, 2022.

Women in Literature TedTalk

Video Credit: TEDx Talks, 2022.

The Poetry of Sylvia Plath

Video Credit: Crash Course, 2015.

Maya Angelou Live Performance

Video Credit: Literature Today - and Yesterday.., 2015.

Sandra Cisneros Interview

Video Credit: Knopfgroup, 2010

Amy Tan Interview

Video Credit: PBS NewsHour, 2018.